Borivoje Mirkovic

Borivoje Mirkovic (23 September 1884-21 August 1969) was a Brigadier-General of the Royal Yugoslav Air Force during World War II.

Biography
Borivoje Mirkovic was born on 23 September 1884 in Valjevo, Kingdom of Serbia. He entered the Serbian Army in 1907, and in 1916 he joined the newly-formed Royal Serbian Air Force during World War I, joining a joint Serbian-French squadron. Due to a quarrel with the aviation command, he was forced to return to the artillery in the Interwar Years, but in 1928 he returned to the Royal Yugoslav Air Force. Mirkovic organized the 27 March 1941 Yugoslav coup d'etat that overthrew the pro-Axis Powers Prince Paul and installed Peter II of Yugoslavia as the new king, and on 16 April 1941 he was wounded when the Axis Powers shot down his plane. While in Cairo, Egypt, he led a Yugoslav government-in-exile supported by the United Kingdom, but Josip Broz Tito's communist government took power in Yugoslavia at the war's end in 1945, leaving Mirkovic as a resident of Britain. He died on 21 August 1969 in London.